Medicine: Hypnosis for Burns

All the standard methods of treatment had failed. Like many severe-burn
victims, a group of patients at Dallas' Parkland Hospital morosely
refused to eat or to exercise, cried out for narcotics, and suffered
from skin grafts that would not heal. For lack of nutrition, the men's
wounds were getting worse instead of better. Then a five-man team *
from the University of Texas' Southwestern Medical School decided to try
age-old, much-debated therapeutic gimmickhypnosis.

The treatment was repeated daily, directed at specific problems. Sample
hyp. node formulas: "When you wake up, the area in which...